minor matter by Ligia Lewis

Feb 16 - Feb 18, 2018

SCHEDULE
Fri / Feb 16 / 10pm
Sat / Feb 17 / 10pm
Sun / Feb 18 / 6pm

In minor matter, two apparatuses are at play—blackness and the spectacle. This is the second work by Dominican-born Ligia Lewis from her trilogy (BLUE, RED, WHITE). Three dancers push against the boundaries of the stage, while illustrating a humble relationship between their bodies and the space that encapsulates it.

Lewis turns to the colour red to materialize thoughts between love and rage. Built on the logic of interdependence, the theatre’s parts—light, sound, image, and architecture—become entangled with the performers, giving life to a vibrant social and poetic space.

minor matter (2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production) unfolds multi-directionally, creating a poetics of dissonance from which questions of re-presentation, presentation, abstraction, and the limits of signification emerge. The performers get exhausted as their bodies strip the stage of its formal mystique to approach its matter—black.

Tactile Audio Display seating available!

TAD-TARDIS (Tactile Audio Relative Dimension In Sound) is an eight channel tactile sound system for the body. A limited number of TAD-TARDIS seats are available to patrons for whom it may increase accessibility. Please select a TAD seat when purchasing your ticket.

“It turns out utopia is going to have to coexist with apocalypse and that both have been with us all along. Lewis’s work offers a kind of oblique blueprint for how joy, hope, anger, and despair are all always the case, using the paradigmatic fact of blackness.” – 4Columns, New York City